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Nancy Rappaport

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Nancy Rappaport is an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an attending child and adolescent psychiatrist at Harvard Teaching affiliate Cambridge Health Alliance.

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Blind Spots: Computer Games and Confessions of a Clinician

I am a child psychiatrist who spends a lot of time talking with teenagers, but I am remarkably clueless when it comes to understanding how they may spend six hours a day glued to the computer screen. I may be able to ask questions casually ("Do you like girls, boys, or both?") and feel relatively hip, but when it comes to exploring their interest in video and computer games I become remarkably sel Read more of this blog post »

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	The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students by Jessica Minahan (Goodreads Author), Nancy Rappaport (Goodreads Author) 4.26 avg rating — 600 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Her Wake: A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Mystery of Her Mother's Suicide 3.74 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 2009 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dear Mallory: Letters to a Teenage Girl Who Killed Herself by Lisa Richards (Goodreads Author), Nancy Rappaport (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Providing comfort after suicide.(EXPERT COMMENTARY): An article from: Clinical Psychiatry News 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students by Jessica Minahan (Goodreads Author), Nancy Rappaport (Goodreads Author), Gina Rogers (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I wanted to like it but the writing was not tight and felt self help preachy although nice to read about someone undocumented who had tenderness in face of bigotry and confidence to move forward with “tenderness.”
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